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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9720290" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I mean, if Downton Abbey was called “the bikini babe spaceship and motorcycle variety hour,” I think people would be pretty justified in expecting it to feature those things. Well dragons, and people who ride them, are things that exist in Forgotten Realms. Starships and cyborg ninja zombies are not things that exist in 1910s London. So, while it is theoretically possible for the story to take a turn in that direction (it is fiction, after all) it would be a dramatic departure in tone, themes, and even genre. Shifting gears to focus on biker women would be a less dramatic turn, but still significantly more dramatic than a group of knights allying with a group of dragons and learning to ride them in D&D.The analogy has gotten away from you. The name being misleading is the initial impetus for the change. Again, if Downton Abbey had been called “Sexy bike riding cyborg-ninja-zombie adventures in space,” it being a romantic drama in Edwardian London would have been a weird choice in the first place.New and interesting things happening in a setting is not bastardizing it. You may not like the new direction, but it’s pretty extreme to act like new developments are automatically disrespecting previous lore.It doesn’t. I’m just one person sharing my opinion. I don’t seem to be alone in that opinion.From the look of the art, that aspect of FR isn’t being preserved anyway. Purple Dragon Knights riding amethyst dragons looks to be a thing that is going to be happening in the story regardless. It’s just that the subclass isn’t going to be mechanically tied to them any more.Purple dragons aren’t even a thing in FR, are they?</blockquote>

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